Futures Worth Preserving – Cultural Constructions of Nostalgia and Sustainability Paperback / softback
by Tom Clucas, Andressa Schroder, Nico Volker, Robert A. Winkler
Part of the Culture & Theory series
Paperback / softback
Description
Cultures as well as individuals continually balance the demands of nostalgia and sustainability as they construct historical narratives of "futures worth preserving".
The aim of this volume is to explore those narratives and the underlying assumptions which inform them.
Drawing on a range of disciplines from the humanities and social sciences, the chapters investigate cultural assumptions about which aspects of the past deserve to be remembered and which aspects of the present should be sustained for the future.
In the process, they reveal how contemporary definitions of sustainability are informed by a nostalgic yearning for the past, and how nostalgia is motivated by a reciprocal longing to sustain the past for the future.
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Transcript Verlag
- Publication Date:01/02/2019
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- ISBN:9783837641226
Information
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:280 pages
- Publisher:Transcript Verlag
- Publication Date:01/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9783837641226
